REACTION OF DEGENERATION
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Definitions of REACTION OF DEGENERATION
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By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The electrical r. indicative of degenerative changes in a nerve. It consists in a rapid loss of the galvanic and faradic irritability of the muscles supplied by it, while the galvanic irritability of the muscles increases and remains exalted for a number of months (until muscular atrophy supervenes). During this condition the anodal closing contraction may be obtained with less than the cathodic closing contraction, contrary to the normal sequence.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
